From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.20 #2) id 14W0u8-0007rp-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:55:52 +0000 Message-ID: <3A956709.18E409D@danielind.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:22:49 -0600 From: Vipin Malik MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: Vipin Malik , mtd@infradead.org Subject: Re: Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does n ot r egister block device! References: <30724FF712DFD2119E6200104B2448920119744C@mail1> <29886.982847889@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: David Woodhouse wrote: > Vipin.Malik@daniel.com said: > > But isn't the same init calls method used to init the stuff in the > > 2.4.x series of kernels. So it's not just a 2.2.18/19 issue. > > Yes, but it works in 2.4, and it doesn't in 2.2.18. So we might as well just > use the 2.2.17 method in 2.2.18 instead of a hacked-up version of the 2.4 > method. Has anyone really tried this in 2.4.x ? I've been playing all morning with the 2.4.1 kernel trying to get the physmap.o __init stuff to run before the rd_load() and just can't seem to get it done. the ramdisk driver cannot find the mtdblock device registered when it tries to load the compressed f/s image from flash. Help! Vipin > > > > Vipin P.S. Did you look at the 2nd patch to inode-v23.c that I sent > > yesterday (to fix the partial page write stuff)? > > Yeah - looks good, thanks. Can you commit it? > > -- > dwmw2 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org